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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 44 | monday april 1, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Trojan tunes: artist Kina
Grannis performs at her alma
mater on tuesday. PAGE 5
Triumphant: uSC men’s swim
and dive team shines at the
nCaa championship. PAGE 12
razan al marzouqi | Daily Trojan
Radio heads
Students listen to Dan Deacon deejay at the fifth annual KXSC Fest, hosted by independent student radio station
KXSC. The event was held indoors for the first time in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom on
Saturday night. Performers also included Chelsea Wolfe and Nguzunguzu. SEE VIDEo AnD DEtAIlS onlInE.
annenberG
By nathaniel haas
daily trojan
The final stage in the international
search for a new director for
Annenberg’s School of Journalism
began March 26 after the last
“Director Search Job Talk.”
The new director is slated to begin
work on July 1.
“The expectation is that the school
will have a new director in the next few
weeks,” said Bill Celis, the associate
director of the School of Journalism.
“USC Annenberg Dean Ernest Wilson
III, advised by faculty feedback, will
make the final decision.”
The selection process began when
current School of Journalism Director
Geneva Overholser announced last
year that she would leave at the end of
June 2013, the conclusion of her five-year
term.
“Geneva Overholser is a visionary
leader who has spent her career
focused on how to make journalism
excellent in every way — more
inclusive, more democratic, more
focused on civic engagement,” Wilson
said. “When she agreed to put her
experience and energy toward the
education of the next generation of
journalists for a five-year term here
at USC Annenberg, we knew we were
embarking on a revolutionary time
for the school. Geneva has set the bar
very high for her successor.”
Vice Dean of the Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism
Larry Gross said it is imperative
for the new director to continue
Overholser’s legacy.
“The chief qualities we are looking
for in a new director include someone
who can maintain the extraordinary
Four candidates left
in director search
Geneva Overholser will retire in
June. The selected director will
take over her position in July.
| see DEAn, page 3 |
By noah Zucker
daily trojan
The Viterbi Startup Garage, a
technology accelerator aimed at
growing startup companies run by
USC students and alumni, is looking
for its first crop of companies to
assist and advise.
The Startup Garage, announced
by Viterbi on March 26, is accepting
applications through April 22; the
12-week summer program will
begin May 28.
Students in the program will
receive expert mentoring, access
to investors, working space and
$20,000 in funding. Ashish Soni, the
program’s director and a founding
director of the Viterbi Student
Innovation Institute, said two
primary goals of the program were
to help USC achieve its vision of
developing the next big technology
company and enable students to
start successful companies.
“One of the things we realized was
that students need time, access to
resources [in the form] of financial
support systems, mentoring and
coaching. It’s hard to get all of that
in a semester,” Soni said.
In addition to focusing their
attention on the university, the
program also seeks to encourage
technology startups to stay in the
Los Angeles area.
“With the Viterbi Startup Garage,
we aim to provide the support
needed so that this talent can fully
develop its potential and make Los
Angeles and Southern Californiaone
of the most vibrant technology
startup regions in the world,” said
Viterbi School of Engineering Dean
Yannis C. Yortsos in a statement.
Viterbi is partnering with Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading
venture capital firm, and United
Talent Agency, a talent and literary
agency, to run the program. As a
part of the program, participants
have access to the KPCB and UTA
networks when they are building
their companies.
“Students will have access
not just to capital, but to insight
into building companies, insight
into the market, into how you
build successful companies,” Soni
said. “[The combination of] a top
engineering school, a top venture
capital firm and a top business
development talent agency is a
unique combination that doesn’t
exist anywhere else in the country.”
Though other technology
accelerators exist in Los Angeles, the
Viterbi Startup Garage is unique in
its focus on students and its link to a
major university.
“We’ll leverage our partners, our
faculty and our alumni to help make
these companies successful,” Soni
said.
This year the Viterbi Startup
Garage will look at digital
andsoftware-based companies, as
well as hardward companies. Soni
Tech accelerator to grow student companies
The Viterbi Startup Garage
will focus on digital and
software-based companies.
| see StArtuP, page 2 |
innovation
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Game time · Google VP of Social Products Bradley Horowitz
speaks to students at a event hosted by the Viterbi Student Innovation
Institute, which also encourages students to create their own start-ups.
reSearCh
By cameron thomas
daily trojan
Motion-sense video games have
found a higher calling than simple
entertainment. A researcher
at USC’s Institute for Creative
Technologies, Belinda Lange, has
been exploring the potential this
type of gaming has to improve
the way physical rehabilitation is
performed and monitored.
“This game-based technology
can really help us to, firstly,
encourage people to do their
exercises,” Lange said. “Secondly,
we can collect some data that will
help us to see how people are doing
their exercises and how they’re
improving over time, and we don’t
have that capability right now.”
Since 2010, Lange and her team
have been developing a motion-sense
application called Jewel
Mine, which is aimed at addressing
the unique challenges physical
therapists face in their daily work.
Lange’s team uses focus groups
and frequently tests prototypes in
local clinics to ensure the needs of
both physicians and patients are
being met.
“We’re really focusing on how
can this be used in the clinical
setting and how can we get this
application to be something that
physicians understand, patients
understand, and we know that
they’ll use it together because
we’ve been working with them
along the way,” Lange said.
The project began after
Nintendo released its Wii gaming
system. Researchers took notice
of the immense popularity of the
games on the platform and the
ability games such as the Wii
Fit had to motivate people to get
moving.
“[We were] watching people
use the [Wii Fit] balance platform
and really seeing them want to
shift their weight, which is always
exciting, for a physical therapist at
least,” Lange said.
Lange said the need for gaming
technologies specific to physical
rehabilitation quickly became
apparent.
The first alteration to the
motion-sense gaming system was
the ability to customize exercises
on a patient-by-patient basis. To
do this Lange said there needed to
be a stronger emphasis on specific
areas of the body and restricting
certain movements dependant
upon the abilities of the individual.
“For example, someone who
had a stroke might not be able to
move one side of their body, yet
the games can’t be changed in
order to have them fit their level of
ability,” Lange said.
The second area of concern was
the commentary games like the
Wii Fit provided to its users.
“The feedback is really negative
[in video games],” Lange said. “In
Rehab clinics to employ
patient gaming therapy
Belinda Lange’s team began
work on its application after
Nintendo’s Wii was released.
| see GAmE, page 2 |

Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 44 | monday april 1, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Trojan tunes: artist Kina
Grannis performs at her alma
mater on tuesday. PAGE 5
Triumphant: uSC men’s swim
and dive team shines at the
nCaa championship. PAGE 12
razan al marzouqi | Daily Trojan
Radio heads
Students listen to Dan Deacon deejay at the fifth annual KXSC Fest, hosted by independent student radio station
KXSC. The event was held indoors for the first time in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom on
Saturday night. Performers also included Chelsea Wolfe and Nguzunguzu. SEE VIDEo AnD DEtAIlS onlInE.
annenberG
By nathaniel haas
daily trojan
The final stage in the international
search for a new director for
Annenberg’s School of Journalism
began March 26 after the last
“Director Search Job Talk.”
The new director is slated to begin
work on July 1.
“The expectation is that the school
will have a new director in the next few
weeks,” said Bill Celis, the associate
director of the School of Journalism.
“USC Annenberg Dean Ernest Wilson
III, advised by faculty feedback, will
make the final decision.”
The selection process began when
current School of Journalism Director
Geneva Overholser announced last
year that she would leave at the end of
June 2013, the conclusion of her five-year
term.
“Geneva Overholser is a visionary
leader who has spent her career
focused on how to make journalism
excellent in every way — more
inclusive, more democratic, more
focused on civic engagement,” Wilson
said. “When she agreed to put her
experience and energy toward the
education of the next generation of
journalists for a five-year term here
at USC Annenberg, we knew we were
embarking on a revolutionary time
for the school. Geneva has set the bar
very high for her successor.”
Vice Dean of the Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism
Larry Gross said it is imperative
for the new director to continue
Overholser’s legacy.
“The chief qualities we are looking
for in a new director include someone
who can maintain the extraordinary
Four candidates left
in director search
Geneva Overholser will retire in
June. The selected director will
take over her position in July.
| see DEAn, page 3 |
By noah Zucker
daily trojan
The Viterbi Startup Garage, a
technology accelerator aimed at
growing startup companies run by
USC students and alumni, is looking
for its first crop of companies to
assist and advise.
The Startup Garage, announced
by Viterbi on March 26, is accepting
applications through April 22; the
12-week summer program will
begin May 28.
Students in the program will
receive expert mentoring, access
to investors, working space and
$20,000 in funding. Ashish Soni, the
program’s director and a founding
director of the Viterbi Student
Innovation Institute, said two
primary goals of the program were
to help USC achieve its vision of
developing the next big technology
company and enable students to
start successful companies.
“One of the things we realized was
that students need time, access to
resources [in the form] of financial
support systems, mentoring and
coaching. It’s hard to get all of that
in a semester,” Soni said.
In addition to focusing their
attention on the university, the
program also seeks to encourage
technology startups to stay in the
Los Angeles area.
“With the Viterbi Startup Garage,
we aim to provide the support
needed so that this talent can fully
develop its potential and make Los
Angeles and Southern Californiaone
of the most vibrant technology
startup regions in the world,” said
Viterbi School of Engineering Dean
Yannis C. Yortsos in a statement.
Viterbi is partnering with Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading
venture capital firm, and United
Talent Agency, a talent and literary
agency, to run the program. As a
part of the program, participants
have access to the KPCB and UTA
networks when they are building
their companies.
“Students will have access
not just to capital, but to insight
into building companies, insight
into the market, into how you
build successful companies,” Soni
said. “[The combination of] a top
engineering school, a top venture
capital firm and a top business
development talent agency is a
unique combination that doesn’t
exist anywhere else in the country.”
Though other technology
accelerators exist in Los Angeles, the
Viterbi Startup Garage is unique in
its focus on students and its link to a
major university.
“We’ll leverage our partners, our
faculty and our alumni to help make
these companies successful,” Soni
said.
This year the Viterbi Startup
Garage will look at digital
andsoftware-based companies, as
well as hardward companies. Soni
Tech accelerator to grow student companies
The Viterbi Startup Garage
will focus on digital and
software-based companies.
| see StArtuP, page 2 |
innovation
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Game time · Google VP of Social Products Bradley Horowitz
speaks to students at a event hosted by the Viterbi Student Innovation
Institute, which also encourages students to create their own start-ups.
reSearCh
By cameron thomas
daily trojan
Motion-sense video games have
found a higher calling than simple
entertainment. A researcher
at USC’s Institute for Creative
Technologies, Belinda Lange, has
been exploring the potential this
type of gaming has to improve
the way physical rehabilitation is
performed and monitored.
“This game-based technology
can really help us to, firstly,
encourage people to do their
exercises,” Lange said. “Secondly,
we can collect some data that will
help us to see how people are doing
their exercises and how they’re
improving over time, and we don’t
have that capability right now.”
Since 2010, Lange and her team
have been developing a motion-sense
application called Jewel
Mine, which is aimed at addressing
the unique challenges physical
therapists face in their daily work.
Lange’s team uses focus groups
and frequently tests prototypes in
local clinics to ensure the needs of
both physicians and patients are
being met.
“We’re really focusing on how
can this be used in the clinical
setting and how can we get this
application to be something that
physicians understand, patients
understand, and we know that
they’ll use it together because
we’ve been working with them
along the way,” Lange said.
The project began after
Nintendo released its Wii gaming
system. Researchers took notice
of the immense popularity of the
games on the platform and the
ability games such as the Wii
Fit had to motivate people to get
moving.
“[We were] watching people
use the [Wii Fit] balance platform
and really seeing them want to
shift their weight, which is always
exciting, for a physical therapist at
least,” Lange said.
Lange said the need for gaming
technologies specific to physical
rehabilitation quickly became
apparent.
The first alteration to the
motion-sense gaming system was
the ability to customize exercises
on a patient-by-patient basis. To
do this Lange said there needed to
be a stronger emphasis on specific
areas of the body and restricting
certain movements dependant
upon the abilities of the individual.
“For example, someone who
had a stroke might not be able to
move one side of their body, yet
the games can’t be changed in
order to have them fit their level of
ability,” Lange said.
The second area of concern was
the commentary games like the
Wii Fit provided to its users.
“The feedback is really negative
[in video games],” Lange said. “In
Rehab clinics to employ
patient gaming therapy
Belinda Lange’s team began
work on its application after
Nintendo’s Wii was released.
| see GAmE, page 2 |